Bonus: I'm going to lug a box of tapes and CDRs to the show to give away to paying patrons on a first-come/first-served basis as a "thanks" for support.

Work/Death

Providence, Rhode Island based Work/Death, operated by Scott Reber, is
an intersection of musique concrete, electro-acoustic improv and
composition, field recording, drone, harsh noise, physical performance,
and the pop song. As the name suggests it is a labor of determination,
focus, and quality accumulating over a lifetime. For the past 10 years
he has synthesized sounds of the 20th century. His multimodal
composition process navigates effortlessly between the intellectualist
Avant Garde and the noise underground with its violent removal of
musical structures. Paraphrasing Reber himself, "David Tudor or Alvin
Lucier as prototype wall noise via early mapping of crunch, crumble,
cracks, crackle, ruptures, space, and moving air that would later be
central to The Rita, Macronympha."

Active in the Ohio experimental music community since 1998, Mike
Shiflet is a former member of Sword Heaven, Burning Star Core, and
Noumena, and also ran the GMBY label until 2008. Utilizing guitar,
laptop and analog devices, his solo work is a unique mix of noise and
drone with melodic components scattered throughout. His 2010
self-released CD Llanos and most recent LPs for Type Records received
high praise from outlets such as NPR, Pitchfork, and The Wire.

OMEI is Chris Goudreau's (SICKNESS/Ninth Circle Music) heavy
electronics/ambient/black drone project. Pounding modular synth,
churning loops, field recordings and slow, thick drone merge together to
create what Goudreau has defined as “SICKNESS can be though of as a
thousand thoughts in 10 seconds. OMEI is the same thought for 10
hours…rework, reconstruct and re-ruin, with the final result of some
kind of resolution.”

Alberich is the long-running and constantly evolving heavy electronics
project of Kris Lapke—longtime Hospital Productions audio engineer and
member of metal transgressors Ash Pool. While recent Alberich action has
skewed toward the rhythmic propulsions of industrial
and avant-techno, this evening's set will be an all new journey in to ambience.